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. >> the ceo of aarp. there are two things that are priorities for all americans, not just financial security and health security. you have heard the conversation about the middle-class, strengthening the middle class and keeping those who are poor from falling off of the cliff into deeper poverty. we have had a vibrant conversation around health-care, continuing social security, and having social security not really being considered it part of the discussion but to focus on how to strengthen social security for current and future generations. healthcare, a number of conversations associated making sure that medicaid and medicare are available. we will continue to have those conversations. the president has been focused on making sure the americans continue to have both the security on the health side and the financial side. >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. i am the president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. i was honored to attend a meeting today with the president j
. >> the ceo of aarp. there are two things that are priorities for all americans, not just financial security and health security. you have heard the conversation about the middle-class, strengthening the middle class and keeping those who are poor from falling off of the cliff into deeper poverty. we have had a vibrant conversation around health-care, continuing social security, and having social security not really being considered it part of the discussion but to focus on how to...
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never a word about the aarp or grover norquist or anybody. if you cannot be who you are and do what you need to do, you should not be in congress. the gentleman who just left, i have to admire him because there are a lot of senior staff who will not let their people, a program like this because they cannot last for an hour because they run out of brains. >> we have a lot of big issues to talk about, and we will do that. let me ask you let me ask you about one aspect of your biography. before you became a of standing citizen, as a young man, you had some serious problems here there are some folks here who have either had similar situations in their own families or have kids that they worry about. . you believe in the redemption is power of life. talk about how you move from a troubled teenager could and young manhood into being the person you are today. guest: i think i was rebellious. i came from a great loving family and mother and father at that live to be 95 and 93 and a brother who is as close as kenbei. i did not like authority. -- who i
never a word about the aarp or grover norquist or anybody. if you cannot be who you are and do what you need to do, you should not be in congress. the gentleman who just left, i have to admire him because there are a lot of senior staff who will not let their people, a program like this because they cannot last for an hour because they run out of brains. >> we have a lot of big issues to talk about, and we will do that. let me ask you let me ask you about one aspect of your biography....
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[laughter] for years, i used to rip up the aarp books i got. but i am not ripping up my social security checks. know what i mean? but i do not like elderly. those of us who are more mature. [applause] but i tell you what, it is about our independence. it is about the dignity everybody craves. they argue that cutting now is the only way to save programs for the next generation. i read an article in the paper today here about that. that is not how i see it. retirement is multi- generational. it is a matter that matters to your children. if you have a decent retirement, everyone of you, it matters to your children. because if you do not, your children feel obliged to step up. caring for a parent is a privilege and one that any honorable child would try to undertake. but for some families, it would come at an incredibly high cost. because they are struggling so badly themselves. the cost for my family was de minimus because of the circumstance my mother's four children were in. because a lot of families, you know, they cannot get their kids to coll
[laughter] for years, i used to rip up the aarp books i got. but i am not ripping up my social security checks. know what i mean? but i do not like elderly. those of us who are more mature. [applause] but i tell you what, it is about our independence. it is about the dignity everybody craves. they argue that cutting now is the only way to save programs for the next generation. i read an article in the paper today here about that. that is not how i see it. retirement is multi- generational. it...
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what i am waiting for is where is the aarp in this baby? all the shrieking ipod -- i have ever heard from them -- i had a hearing when i was in congress. i dragged them in. i said, what do you do with the money? that really po'ed them. they said all their existence of their money, and never touched the precious life stream of social security. the precious life stream of social security is the payroll tax cuts. i have said, are there any pictures in here or just marketers? if you're out there today tell us what you think when you watch the sacred flow of money to the system, the payroll tax getting off balance from 6-2 to 4.2. eventually it will be put back. you have to borrow the money from the feds to do it. when you put it back, it will be called a tax increase and grover norquist will call it a tax increase and 95% of the republicans will be terrified. what can grover norquist do to you? he can defeat for reelection or play a primary opponent against you. if that means more to the your country and patriotism, you should not be in congres
what i am waiting for is where is the aarp in this baby? all the shrieking ipod -- i have ever heard from them -- i had a hearing when i was in congress. i dragged them in. i said, what do you do with the money? that really po'ed them. they said all their existence of their money, and never touched the precious life stream of social security. the precious life stream of social security is the payroll tax cuts. i have said, are there any pictures in here or just marketers? if you're out there...